The Making of Islamic Economic Thought
Islamization, Law, and Moral Discourses
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Interrogating the development and conceptual framework of economic thought in the Islamic tradition pertaining to ethical, philosophical, and theological ideas, this book provides a critique of modern Islamic economics as a hybrid economic system. From the outset, Sami Al-Daghistani is concerned with the polyvalent methodology of studying the phenomenon of Islamic economic thought as a human science in that it nurtures a complex plentitude of meanings and interpretations associated with the moral self. By studying legal scholars, theologians, and Sufis in the classical period, Al-Daghistani looks at economic thought in the context of Shar?'a's moral law. Alongside critiquing modern developments of Islamic economics, he puts forward an idea for a plural epistemology of Islam's moral economy, which advocates for a multifaceted hermeneutical reading of the subject in light of a moral law, embedded in a particular cosmology of human relationality, metaphysical intelligibility, and economic subjectivity.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Force of Revivalism and Islamization: Their Impact on Knowledge, Politics, and Islamic Economics
- 2 The Present: Muslim Economists and the Constellation of Islamic Economics
- 3 The Past Perfect: SharÄ«Êża and the Intellectual History of Islamic Economic Teachings
- 4 The Appraisal: Contemporary Islamic Economics and the Entrenchment of Modernity
- 5 Pluralistic Epistemology of Islamâs Moral Economics
- Conclusion: Moral over Legal, Pluralistic over Monolithic
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index